“Breakout” of the blues with Atari and Google

A longtime fan of Google’s daily doodles, I have a new reason today to appreciate the search engine!

Google has devised a pretty cool way to celebrate the 37th anniversary of Atari’s classic game “Breakout.” If you’ve got some spare time, and the desire to return to 1976, search for “Atari Breakout” in Google Images and block out at least an hour of your day to get addicted to “Images Breakout.”

Your search will indeed turn up images of the iconic game, but those images will quickly turn into a playable version of “Breakout,” as seen here…

I’m sure this would be a great workday diversion, if you’re the kind of person who would play games at your workspace … which, of course I am not! (Truth be told, though, I did have to play the game once to get these screen grabs … but c’mon! This is work for me!)

Want even more Google fun? Try searching for Chuck Norris and see what comes up. Type in the word “tilt” and watch what happens. And the old classic: Search for the term “do a barrell roll,” and turn your computer upside-down!